Olivia Coleman perhaps pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the night, beating frontrunner Glenn Close to take home the Oscar for Best Actress in a leading role for her deft performance as the erratic Queen Anne in The Favourite.
“Glenn Close, you’ve been my idol for so long and this is not how I wanted it to be,” Coleman quipped while onstage accepting her award and acknowledging her fellow nominees. “I love you all.”
Yorgos Lanthimos directed The Favourite, which is set in early 18th century England and follows frail Queen Anne whose attention is torn between Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and her servant Abigail Hill (Emma Stone), who engage in a sexually charged fight to the death for the body and soul of Queen Anne at the height of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Coleman made sure to include a nod to her co-stars...
“Glenn Close, you’ve been my idol for so long and this is not how I wanted it to be,” Coleman quipped while onstage accepting her award and acknowledging her fellow nominees. “I love you all.”
Yorgos Lanthimos directed The Favourite, which is set in early 18th century England and follows frail Queen Anne whose attention is torn between Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and her servant Abigail Hill (Emma Stone), who engage in a sexually charged fight to the death for the body and soul of Queen Anne at the height of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Coleman made sure to include a nod to her co-stars...
- 2/25/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
David Crow Feb 19, 2019
Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, and Rachel Weisz are all the lead role in The Favourite. So why does film culture reduce analysis to Oscars?
When speaking with the filmmakers and cast of The Favourite late last year, we posed a simple yet impossible question: Who in this darkly hilarious tragedy is the protagonist? Or, just as easily, who is the lead character? It’s a preposterous query, because the answer between its triumvirate of acerbic performances is all of them. Or none of them. At different points, Rachel Weisz’s Lady Sarah, Emma Stone’s Abigail Hill, and Olivia Colman’s not-so-regal Queen Anne dominate the film’s narrative and our sympathies. But at no point do any of them maintain their ownership of that power, which is all the more remarkable since Yorgos Lanthimos’ film is entering an awards season that is compelled to simplify art to categories,...
Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, and Rachel Weisz are all the lead role in The Favourite. So why does film culture reduce analysis to Oscars?
When speaking with the filmmakers and cast of The Favourite late last year, we posed a simple yet impossible question: Who in this darkly hilarious tragedy is the protagonist? Or, just as easily, who is the lead character? It’s a preposterous query, because the answer between its triumvirate of acerbic performances is all of them. Or none of them. At different points, Rachel Weisz’s Lady Sarah, Emma Stone’s Abigail Hill, and Olivia Colman’s not-so-regal Queen Anne dominate the film’s narrative and our sympathies. But at no point do any of them maintain their ownership of that power, which is all the more remarkable since Yorgos Lanthimos’ film is entering an awards season that is compelled to simplify art to categories,...
- 11/20/2018
- Den of Geek
David Crow Feb 24, 2019
Emma Stone discusses the darkly funny The Favourite, and how it's a unique period film without a heroine.
In her own way, Emma Stone looks at The Favourite as a love story. A dark and twisted one where affairs of state and the affairs of the state’s bed mingle when a British Queen pits her two favorite courtiers against each other. Yet a pseudo-romance built on gallows humor it remains. And it’s the heart of this matter, even with its sardonic debauchery, that makes Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest such a hard-to-categorize delight.
“I would consider it a love story of sorts,” Stone says with the hint of a wry smile. “To what extent that love is from a completely pure place and not for personal gain, there are shades of gray there, I think.” The Oscar winning performer is referring specifically to her own character, Abigail Hill.
Emma Stone discusses the darkly funny The Favourite, and how it's a unique period film without a heroine.
In her own way, Emma Stone looks at The Favourite as a love story. A dark and twisted one where affairs of state and the affairs of the state’s bed mingle when a British Queen pits her two favorite courtiers against each other. Yet a pseudo-romance built on gallows humor it remains. And it’s the heart of this matter, even with its sardonic debauchery, that makes Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest such a hard-to-categorize delight.
“I would consider it a love story of sorts,” Stone says with the hint of a wry smile. “To what extent that love is from a completely pure place and not for personal gain, there are shades of gray there, I think.” The Oscar winning performer is referring specifically to her own character, Abigail Hill.
- 11/14/2018
- Den of Geek
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